The exact numbers should be taken with a grain of salt, but it’s hard to believe China is successfully hiding millions, or even hundreds of thousands, of covid deaths from the world. I could easily believe the actual death toll is ten times what the CCP claims. I don’t think it at all likely that it’s a hundred times…

Depending on your interests, you could potentially go a lifetime without baking anything that requires real vanilla. Any time you’re making something where vanilla is the main flavor you should use the real stuff, but for something like chocolate chip cookies where it’s a secondary flavor the difference is barely…

Stuff not loading in time when you’re moving too fast isn’t a “technical hiccup with the new engine.” It’s a fundamental limitation that every open world game needs to balance against. The more stuff you’re loading in memory the more time you need to load it, and thus the slower you have to limit players’ top speed.

Let me put it this way: studios that use Unreal generally prominently mention that fact in recruiting emails, because it’s dramatically more pleasant to work in than most in-house engines. It’s not a magic bullet, and high graphical fidelity always comes with a lot of work, but there are a lot of time saving features…

Not really, no.

So the concept of different people expressing affection in different ways, and needing it expressed to them in different ways, is a valuable one. But I’m pretty sure there are as many “love languages” as there are people, and attempts to turn them into a discrete list, whether that be five items long or seven, is just…

Some prescriptivist grammarians say that “themself” is wrong, and you should always use “themselves”. But “themself” has been used for centuries, is being used with increasing frequency in regards to non-binary individuals, and feels vastly more natural to my ear.

Any time you reuse a green letter you’re gaining zero extra information. Unless there’s a good chance you’re gonna guess the correct word, that’s a sub-optimal choice.

Yes, it absolutely is, though to some extent it’s an industry wide trend. Respawn just did a similar soft-announcement, probably also to help with recruitment.

The only game I can think of where you’d care about having 240 FPS and you have a chance in hell of hitting it at 4k is CS:GO. But for most people, I think it’s about having the option of 4k, or turn down the resolution and get a super high framerate.

The only game I can think of where you’d care about having 240 FPS and you have a chance in hell of hitting it at 4k…

Most English speakers use Celsius, that doesn’t mean they know absolutely nothing about the Fahrenheit system. 

Lots of people couldn’t tell you immediately what, say 70F feels like, but I’m pretty sure the percentage of English speakers who don’t know that 32F is 0C is very small.

I don’t think there’s any overlap between “People who think Monopoly is a game worth playing” and “People who play Legacy games”.

I’d never judge someone for not having books on display, but I do find that a bookshelf is perhaps the single best conversation piece a room can have (assuming they’ve read most of the books).

So I might not recommend them if you’re trying to sell your house, but to actually live and entertain in, themed rooms are great.

While I agree that writing out Sam was weird and dumb, calling Jonah “just the ship’s cook” feels like a disservice (if technically true).

If you’re an experienced developer, you have better options. And if you’re trying to break in, it’s probably a terrible time. Junior hires are a long term investment, because they take a lot of work to onboard. Studios with a severe immediate labor shortage don’t go for juniors.

I think pretty much the only people who use dental dams are engaging in what would otherwise be extremely high risk sexual activities (orgies and the like). For most people, the risk of STD transmission through oral sex on a woman really isn’t high enough to worry about.

While Squid Game is, at its heart, a criticism of capitalism, the depiction of North Korea in the series is not at all sympathetic.

I suspect the question at this point is just how gigantic of a golden parachute is he going to get.